#Pelicot case

[kylobith]

Her husband got the maximum sentence in France, which is 20 years, and was found guilty of not only drugging her and having her raped, but also of taking photos/videos and selling them. All the men who were tried (50 of them) were found guilty and got a prison sentence of minimum 3 years. Some of them will still remain free over the holidays, but they need to face another judge later who will apply the sentence accordingly. While it all seems too little considering what they did, it's still historical to have such a case finally taken seriously in France. Some horrors that were said by the lawyers probably didn't reach foreign media, but French-speaking people who followed the case, most likely a lot of women, had to hear/read them. As a rape survivor myself, it made me sick to my stomach to hear that shit. But Gisèle Pelicot deserves justice. We hope to see a before/after Gisèle Pelicot in the justice system and dare to believe that future cases will be treated more justly. If you followed this case, please support Adèle Haenel as well. Her case started during the Pelicot case and got less publicity, but she is also dragging her abuser to court. She was abused by her mentor when she was only 12 years old and so far, all I've heard from the case is that Adèle had to walk out during the session because, as usual, she was told that she must've consented at that age.

“Shame must change sides.”

Gisele Pelicot is one of the bravest and most heroic people alive.

[rikkucheshire]

Because it cannot be said enough:

Madame Pelicot, you are a hero!

[estellaestella]

the things Dominique Pelicot did is beyond words. drugged and raped his wife of 50 years (she was 18 when they met); brought in strangers to rape her while she lay drugged; drugged his daughter, took naked photos of her.

and the scariest thing is that he was just another ordinary family man. we think we can tell the good ones from the bad but we cant.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Borrowed a few of the names from this BBC list just to demonstrate how mind fuckingly “regular passing” some of these man are:

Dominique Pelicot: Guilty of aggravated rape on his ex-wife, Gisèle. Also guilty of the attempted aggravated rape of the wife of one of the co-accused, Jean-Pierre Marechal, Cillia, and taking indecent images of his daughter, Caroline, and his daughters-in-law, Aurore and Celine. Sentenced to 20 years. He is 72.

Jean-Pierre Marechal: Guilty of attempted rape and aggravated rape of his wife, as well as drugging her. Sentenced to 12 years. The only one of the 51 who was not accused of raping or attempting to rape Gisèle, the 63-year-old admitted to following Dominique Pelicot's lead, drugging his own wife for five years, raping her and inviting Dominique to rape her too.

Cyrille Delville: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. He is a father-of-two.

Christian Lescole: Guilty of aggravated rape. Acquitted of having child abuse imagery. Sentenced to nine years. He is a volunteer firefighter and father of two daughters. He has been in jail since 2021.

Lionel Rodriguez: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 44-year-old was an employee in the same supermarket where Dominique Pelicot got caught upskirting in 2020, leading to the rape investigation.

Nicolas Francois: Guilty of aggravated rape and having child abuse imagery. Sentenced to eight years and banned from working in jobs with children for several years. He is a 43-year-old freelance journalist.

Patrice Nicolle: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 55-year-old father-of-two is an electrician.

Nizar Hamida: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 10 years. The 40-year-old had worked as a hairdresser, builder and delivery driver.

Karim Sebaoui: Guilty of aggravated rape and having child abuse imagery. Sentenced to 10 years. The 40-year-old is an unmarried IT specialist.

(full list list from the source)

Can we please talk about the Gisele Pelicot mass rape case more? This shit is so disturbing that I’m shocked at how deep men’s hatred run for women goes, even the ones they marry and commit to for life. A man willingly drugged his own wife, raped her multiple times, and then invited 50 men over to share in the act - from 2011 through 2020. How does that not make people incredibly angry. How does it shock no one else that misogyny could run this deep

[emamame]

[head-post]

How Pélicot case exposed rape culture in France

50 people stood trial, accused of raping the motionless body of Gisèle Pélicot while her husband recorded their actions for his video library. The unprecedented mass rape case revealed the actual image of a rapist, according to AP News.

A trial in France shows how pornography, sex chat rooms and men’s disdain for consent are fuelling rape culture. French society was disturbed not by the fact that her husband Dominique Pélicot orchestrated the mass rape, but that he had no difficulty finding dozens of men who agreed to engage in unlawful sexual acts.

One of the rapists, a married plumber with three children and five grandchildren, said he was not particularly bothered that the woman was not moving when he visited the Pélicot family home in the town of Mazan in 2019. He stated that it reminded him of adult videos, featuring women “pretending to be asleep and don’t react,” he watched.

Many of the other defendants told the court that they could not have imagined Dominique Pélicot drugging his wife and that they were told she was a willing participant acting out a perverted fantasy. However, the husband denied the accusation, claiming that his co-defendants was aware of the situation.

Pornography flourishing

Céline Piques, a spokesperson of the feminist group Osez le Féminisme!, or Dare Feminism! stated that many of the men under investigation were perverted by pornography. Although some websites started fighting search terms such as “unconscious,” hundreds of such videos could still be found online, Piques stressed.

Last year, French authorities registered 114,000 victims of sexual violence, including more than 25,000 reported rapes. However, experts argue that most rape cases go unreported due to a lack of tangible evidence. Many women do not press charges, with most dropping cases before investigations start.

The Pélicot case was unique in the French judicial system. After a shop security guard caught Dominique Pélicot making videos of unsuspecting women’s skirts in 2020, police searched his home and found thousands of pornographic photos and videos. The main defendant later revealed that he had recorded and stored the sexual encounters of each of his guests and organised them neatly in separate files.

France thrilled world community

Gisèle Pélicot, who is in her early 70s, did not know she had been raped. She chose to stay in the courtroom while the videos were shown. Unable to watch, she closed her eyes, stared at the floor or buried her face in her hands.

Sexual assault experts say the unwillingness or inability of the accused to confess to rape reveals the taboos and stereotypes that persist in French society. Magali Lafourcade, a judge and general secretary of the National Consultative Commission of Human Rights, did not attend the trial but said popular culture had given people a wrong idea of what rapists looked like and how they acted.

It’s the idea of a hooded man with a knife whom you don’t know and is waiting for you in a place that is not a private place.

Two-thirds of rapes occurred in private homes, with the vast majority of victims knowing their rapists, Lafourcade emphasised. She drew attention to the frightening reality that the Pélicot case “makes us realise that in fact rapists could be anyone.”

For once, they’re not monsters – they’re not serial killers on the margin of society. They are men who resemble those we love. In this sense, there is something revolutionary.

Read more HERE

[modern-heresy]

All 50 and the husband were convicted, though only a few received maximum sentences, and some were suspended.

All 50 men found guilty in Gisele Pelicot's case!!

[auntierayeraye]

💜💜💜

[supercheesecakemiracle]

Not Enough. Not Ever Enough. He should rot in jail forever, those men deserve harsher sentences.

Gisele Pelicot you are an icon and I hope you never have to see any of these men again, they will get what they deserve in the next life if not in this one.

[morecoffee]

Huge win for what is essentially a second-wave feminist position, that the shame of rape should be focused on the rapists, not the victims. Anyway, I love her.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

it's not just Andrew Tate and his ilk. The age range of the accused in the Pelicot case is very telling. 26 to 76. goes across three generations. you almost marvel at how several 70+ ppl would manage to become internet savvy enough to find such sites and operate on it. Tate is just our current manifestation of it. which of course doesn't take away any of the seriousness of this problem. it just shows how deep it's embedded on our societies.

SO SO true anon!!!! Very well said

[adolin]

Full names and details of every man who was convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot. The list includes 50 men who could be identified, besides Gisèle's husband, ranging in age from 27 to 74. Among them are a firefighter, a journalist, a nurse, a construction worker, and a prison guard. Most have families of their own, and only about half had previous convictions.

[instantmanifestation]

[TW: Rape, SA, drug facilitated SA]

These tv shows really expose what’s already going on. All evil happens in plain sight.

[justanotherbloodywoman]

And they basically never target people alike their supposed abusers; almost always children and women... and of all of things go about "processing their trauma" by raping those much more vulnerable than them.

Women should castrate all rapists. No questions.

[head-post]

Gisèle Pelicot speaking after her ex-husband found guilty of rape, sentenced to 20 years

Gisèle Pelicot spoke of her “very difficult ordeal” after 51 men were found guilty in a drug and rape case, according to AP News.

Your messages moved me deeply, and they gave me the strength to come back, every day, and survive through these long daily hearings. This trial was a very difficult ordeal.

The men were convicted by a court in the southern French city of Avignon on Thursday and received three to 20 years in prison. Pelicot expressed support for other victims of sexual violence whose cases had not drawn as much attention.

I want you to know that we share the same fight.

Pelicot became an icon for many women in France and the rest of the world when she demanded that all evidence be heard in open trial.

I never regretted making this decision. I have trust in our capacity to collectively project ourselves toward a future where all, women and men, can live in harmony, with respect and mutual understanding. Thank you.

The court sentenced her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her, as well as allowing other men to rape her while she was unconscious. The sentence was the maximum possible under French law and Dominique, 72, would not be eligible to ask for parole until at least two-thirds of the sentence had been served.

The lawyer of Dominique Pelicot, Béatrice Zavarro, said she would consider an appeal, but also expressed hope that Gisèle Pelicot would find comfort in the court’s judgements.

I wanted Mrs. Pelicot to be able to emerge from these hearings in peace, and I think that the verdicts will contribute to this relief for Mrs. Pelicot.

Accusation details

Of the 50 people charged with rape, only one was acquitted, but he was instead found guilty of aggravated sexual assault. Prosecutors had asked for 10 to 18 years for the accused, except for Dominique Pelicot. However, the court was more lenient, with many sentenced to less than ten years in prison.

All of the defendants were accused of participating in Dominique Pelicot’s filthy fantasies of rape and violence, which were played out in the couple’s retirement home in the small Provence town of Mazan and elsewhere.

Dominique first came to the attention of police in September 2020, when a supermarket security guard busted him for secretly filming women’s skirts. Police subsequently discovered his library of home images documenting years of abuse of his wife. Those included more than 20,000 photos and videos saved on computer discs and catalogued in folders labelled “abuse,” “her rapists,” “night alone” etc.

Investigators counted 72 different rapists in the video, but were unable to identify them all. While some of the defendants, including Dominique Pelicot, pleaded guilty to rape, many did not, even despite the video evidence.

The hearings sparked a wider debate in France about whether the country’s legal definition of rape should be broadened to include a specific reference to consent. Some put the blame on Dominique, claiming he had misled them into thinking they were taking part in a consensual perversion.

Read more HERE